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timidity, lor it permits quite a close approach without manifesting 

 fear or attempting to escape. In its movements it is, for the most 

 part, slow and deliberate, very different from most of the thrushes. 

 Its note is perhaps its most striking characteristic, and once heard, 

 coming from the depths of some dark ravine, the author being usu- 

 ally entirely invisible, can never be forgotten. It is a loud and clear 

 but rather melancholy whistle, sloAvly uttered and repeated at inter- 

 vals, the bird usually remaining in the same place for some little 

 time. 



Sexes much alike. In most of our series of. twelve specimens I 

 can see no trace whatever of the olivaceous tint on the head, men- 

 tioned by Mr. Stejneger (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. v, p. 22), and 

 the same tint on the back does not seem to vary but very little with 

 the sex, it being almost absent on some females, and quite plain on 

 some males. Again, the olivaceous on the lores and over the eye 

 seems to vary greatly, being decided in some, and almost absent in 

 others, without regard to sex or season; so that I judge it, together 

 with the tint on the back, to be more a matter of age or individual 

 variation than a sexual or specific character, as the specimens that 

 are strongest olivaceous on the back, have the most of the same tint 

 on the lores and over the eye. In one, a female, taken May 15, 

 where the tint on the back even approaches rufous and extends on 

 to the wing coverts, the olivaceous on the head is very decided, the 

 whole side of the head and some of the ear coverts being washed 

 with it. Irides brown, legs and feet yellow, bill black 5 8i-3f-3|- 

 12 ; U-^-^-\^ -, Si-Sf-Sf-H^. $ 8^-3^-3^-111 ; Si-Sf-Si-Hf ; 

 8-3^-3f. One specimen, sex undetermined owing to mutilation, 7f- 

 3f-3^-10f 



" Nest a very frail structure of hair and roots, sometluDg like that of our Chipping 

 Sparrow {Sprzella socialis). Eggs, two in number, white, spotted with lilac about the 

 larger end. One nest taken with badly incubated eggs which could not be saved. 

 Situated about 8 feet from the ground in a lime tree. Laudat, April 9, 1890." — 

 (A. ir. V.) 



51. Allenia montana (Lafr.). "Grive," "Grivctte," Pat. and Fr. (Small 

 Thrush). 



Afargarops montunufi (Vieill.) ; Lawr., and Scl. List. 



Common but, like the following, much hunted and hence rather 

 shy. Widely distributed and found in much the same places as 

 the next species, though as a rule nearer the ground, sometimes close 

 to or on it. Song like that of the " Grosse Grive " but shorter. 



